Unix timestamps

Datetimes are sometimes stored as Unix timestamps: the number of seconds since January 1, 1970. This is especially common with computer infrastructure, like the log files that websites keep when they get visitors.

This exercise is part of the course

Working with Dates and Times in Python

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Exercise instructions

  • Complete the for loop to loop over timestamps.
  • Complete the code to turn each timestamp ts into a datetime.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Import datetime
from datetime import datetime

# Starting timestamps
timestamps = [1514665153, 1514664543]

# Datetime objects
dts = []

# Loop
for ts in ____:
  dts.append(datetime.____(____))
  
# Print results
print(dts)